Two Tewkesbury teenagers who robbed a terrified 14-year-old boy at knifepoint and forced him to strip down to his boxer shorts to humiliate him on a freezing cold night were locked up by a judge today.

As the 17 year olds were taken to the cells there was angry shouting across the courtroom between a group of people which including the victim's family and the parents of the defendants.

One of the defendants, the ringleader of the incident, received two years detention and training.

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Judge Jamie Tabor QC told them that if they had been adults they would have been jailed for four to five years.

The ringleader's time behind bars could be extended next month when he appears at the youth court in Cheltenham to be sentenced for assaulting another boy causing actual bodily harm in an incident where he also made his victim take off clothes.

The mother of that victim was also in court today and shouted at his parents during the exchange of words that erupted at the end of the hearing.

Prosecutor Janine Wood told Gloucester Crown Court today that on the evening of December 27 last year, when the temperature was -2C, the 14 year old victim was a bus stop in Tewkesbury.

The two defendants, whom he knew, went by and said they wanted a word with him.

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"He walked with them towards some fields. Then without warning one of the defendants put him in a headlock. He pulled him into an alleyway and punched him.

"Both defendants then punched him. When he tried to kick back at them they got angry and started kicking him.

"The victim's phone rang. It was his mother calling. As he tried to answer it the ringleader snatched it from him. He told the boy to take off all his clothes. It was dark and cold. He was scared that they would kill him.

"The ringleader told him to strip down to his boxer shorts. He was left without even his socks on. They said his clothes would be there tomorrow and he was told to leave.

"He walked up to the main road and was noticed by a motorist, Yvonne Lusardi, a nurse.

She stopped to pick him up and the police were called.

Judge Tabor said she should be commended for her 'Good Samaritan' actions.

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Mrs Wood said the penknife used by the youths was found in the mattress of one of their homes.

Both had a 2014 joint conviction for burglary. The ringleader also had a 2016 conviction for battery and is awaiting sentence for a similar assault. The other defendant wsas reprimanded for having a knife in public when he was 13.